IQNA

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The UN Security Council will meet on Wednesday behind closed doors for the second time since the Rohingya Muslim crisis erupted but without Myanmar's leader.

Myanmar's national leader Aung San Suu Kyi, facing outrage over
ethnic violence that has forced about 370,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to
Bangladesh, won't attend the upcoming UN General Assembly session in New York.

The crisis
over the security forces' fierce response to a series of militant
attacks is the biggest problem Suu Kyi has faced since becoming Myanmar's
leader last year.

Critics
have called for Suu Kyi to be stripped of her Nobel peace prize for failing to
do more to halt the strife.

In her first address to the UN General Assembly as national
leader in September last year, Suu Kyi defended her government's efforts to
resolve the crisis over treatment of the Muslim minority.

This year,
her party spokesman said she would not be attending, although he said he was
unsure why.